Saturday Dec 22, 2018
Today is day 1 of our polyphasic sleep experiment. What's this experiment? Let me backup.
So Todor, my boyfriend of 4 months, has an affinity for crazy ideas. One of these ideas is to have a polyphasic sleeping schedule, instead of a mono sleeping schedule. For more about polyphasic sleeping, see https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Today is day 1 of our experiment. We woke up at 10am (since we went dancing last night and didn't get to bed until 2:30 am). So far so good. I'm at his place and he spent most of the day packing. Oh ya, he found a new place to live and decided tomorrow is a fine time to move. 🙄We took 25 minute naps at noon, 4pm, 8pm, midnight. I'm writing this at 2:16 am.
Ok, it was REALLY hard to get up from this last nap. Now I know how new parents feel, except we don't have the impending consequences of a unfed/unchanged child to keep us awake. Really, this is all because I want to support Todor in his weird ideas. There is nothing keeping us awake other than sheer will. My head is throbbing (probably from the fact that I had to cut out my one drug habit Caffeine*), my eyes are dry, my brain is basically a big cotton ball. But whatever....it's just an experiment. If we/I fail, at least I would know my limits.
But ya, waking up in the middle of the night is no fun, and THIS IS ONLY DAY 1!!! We have some sleep reserve we can draw on so it's not the worst yet. Tomorrow... we'll see.
* Giving up caffeine has been a surprisingly easy and hard thing to do. Easy because I started tapering off about 2 weeks ago, and hard because I found my brain resisting the idea that I will no longer be able to enjoy my morning routine of a hot cup of coffee. Other than that, I found that I'm having more and more vivid dreams, and I remember them longer. This is the reason to give up coffee for polysic sleepers, but still I was surprised.
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